I think you left out a letter in your description of me. Didn't you mean ... 'flounder'? Actually I'm a Johnny-come-lately. The tug was raised from a local river in 1981 and I didn't show up 'til about '95.

No really - thanks for posting up with us. We've got a great assemblage of mechanically-minded and artistic folks, an excellent artifact and interpretive platform from which to share with the peoples of the Chesapeake Bay region yea the nation and plans for how to accomplish them the future. Did I mention three great discussion forums as vehicles for meeting and sharing the past with others around the world and looking ahead with a vision and their help?

Your very experiences as a youngster about becoming a waterways captain will give others hope of following in your footsteps Walker. That's the beauty of sharing the past with the future. I'm sure you'll agree that the TUG BALTIMORE PROJECT isn't about clinging to old things - It's about instilling the tangables necessary for tomorrow's leaders to see, understand and gain their own footholds to-day for to-morrow.

Check out the first few lines of our living history page to see where I am going, and please don't make yourself a stranger to these pages.

Regardless of whether you ever step foot onto BALTIMORE'S decks, by providing the link to your article about "growing up around tugboats" you've already made quite a contribution to some youngster's thinking processes.

Best regards from a former Cooper River tugboater.
Walt
PS You did hear that some worldly Charlestonians have been known to say that their fair city was formed on the spit of land where the Cooper and Ashley Rivers come together to form the Atlantic Ocean? 'Tis True.... They said it! I heard it! ;)

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